Just a reminder as this case continues to move forward: The actual scientific evidence supports *expanding* access to medication abortion, not restricting it.

Proud to be one of the 360 reproductive health researchers who just filed an amici curiae brief with SCOTUS in support of medication abortion as this case continues. The science is crystal clear — abortion pills are safe and effective, and we should be making them MORE accessible, not less!

This staunchly conservative court’s decision to unnecessarily disrupt medication abortion access nationwide is based on ideology, NOT evidence. Abortion pills are still safe, still effective, and still available by mail through community networks:

We want to remind everyone that mifepristone is safe. Mifepristone has been used safely by more than five million people in the U.S., with a safety record better than common drugs like Tylenol or Viagra.

Mifepristone is not illegal. It is not being taken off the market. LOUDER NOW. Mifepristone is not illegal. It is not being taken off the market.

I haven't been following the birthright citizenship case, but after spending the last year writing about fetal personhood, it strikes me that the right is trying to read birth out of the 14A in both directions. Immigrants born here shouldn't get rights but fetuses not yet born should.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

UPDATE: The Montana Supreme Court has decided to keep several burdensome restrictions on the state’s abortion clinics ❌BLOCKED❌ while our case to get them struck down for good proceeds.

NEW: Our latest analysis shows that top news outlets frequently vilify people criminalized for allegedly self-managing an abortion in ways that help to legitimize the policing of pregnancy and normalize far-right "fetal personhood" ideology. Open access article ➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41090543/

Please help support @psabortionfund.bsky.social in covering the $10,000 bail for a South Carolina woman who was recently arrested for the so-called “crime” of disposing of her own pregnancy tissue after experiencing a miscarriage: donorbox.org/legal-fees

Pssst 🗣️ They’re using abortion to challenge EMTALA (which legally requires ERs to provide stabilizing care regardless of your ability to pay) while kicking 16 million people off health insurance, closing hospitals, and ending medical school loans during a primary care shortage. They want you dead.

NEW: The Senate bill "defunding" Planned Parenthood is just one front in the war to ban abortion without explicitly banning it. The right is vying to cut off federal funds, shutter clinics, restrict abortion pills, and let protestors terrorize abortion seekers—and put abortion entirely out of reach

I hope it’s clear to everyone that this budget bill quite literally defunds every social assistance program in the country to increase funding for ICE, defense contractors, and millionaires.

Babes I’m gonna be honest we got people being disappeared by ICE and having their corpses used as incubators so I could not possibly care less about however Sabrina Carpenter wants to consensually sexualize herself

Pay attention to this. Abortion is under attack—but it’s also often a canary in the coal mine. HIPAA *ALREADY* prohibited disclosing health info, just like EMTALA *ALREADY* required hospitals to provide emergency abortions. Biden just reiterated that. The GOP wants to upend HIPAA & EMTALA entirely.

Kelcie has been all over this horrifying story Opinion and order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... One page judgement: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

👽😘 #fixyourheartsordie

May Adriana Smith finally rest in peace. What Emory Hospital & Georgia have put her family through is unimaginable. It turns my stomach to see people say someone who died in February just “gave birth.” You can donate to help Adriana’s family with the enormous medical bill and care of her sons here:

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Let's be clear: our collective failure to normalize abortion as vital healthcare (including among liberals) leaves abortion providers and pro-abortion legislators uniquely vulnerable. Sending love to Minnesota and especially to the Hortman and Hoffman families. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

The Minnesota shooter reportedly had a hit list of almost 70 people, including abortion providers and abortion rights advocates. Just this week, a House committee advanced a bill that would repeal a federal law protecting abortion clinics www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

Status of post-Dobbs abortion bans as of 5/28/25: ❌ Total ban: SD, OK, TX, AR, MS, AL, LA, KY, TN, ID, WV, IN, MO ❌ 6-wk: SC, FL, IA, GA ❌ 12-wk: NC, NE ❌ 18-wk: UT 🚫 Ban blocked but no available clinics: ND ✅ Ban recently blocked and clinics available: WY, AZ

This one is a must read, especially for folks still evolving on the urgent need to abolish family policing. One part of this infuriating story to highlight is that the only people who fundraised and provided material support to this teen and her baby…was abortion funds.

No matter your status, you deserve access to care and support. We know people have a lot of questions about their rights around both abortion and immigration. That’s why @ineedana.bsky.social and us along with @immdefenseproject.bsky.social, created a guide: www.ineedana.com/blog/how-can...

Help support Adriana Smith’s family as they navigate the growing costs of this tragedy:

If this rightfully disgusts you, know that about half of states have pregnancy exclusions for advanced medical directives.

Adriana Smith was a young mom and Emory Hospital nurse who tragically lost her life in February while nine weeks pregnant. Georgia’s abortion ban is forcing Adriana’s family — against their wishes — to keep her body on a ventilator for 7 months to incubate the fetus. The cruelty is unfathomable.

The best later abortion reporting I’ve ever read. Thank you @amylittlefield.bsky.social for lifting up our patients and staff in such a tender, respectful way, and for calling out the terrible political decisions that got us viability bans.

Working on my first syllabus…what’s one classroom policy a professor had (grading, assignments, attendance, etc.) that you actually found really helpful?

FINALLY!

What police and prosecutors are doing to #KarenRead is WILD, but if this is how far they’ll go to frame a rich white woman who was dating a cop and has a world class defense team, imagine what they do to low-income Black and brown folks every day. It’s not just corruption—it’s structural violence.

can we get a pimple patch but it’s a full face mask? all this anti-intellectualist authoritarianism is really clogging my pores

The FDA has replaced Dr. Peter Marks, the agency's top vaccines official, with a vocal critic of Marks: Dr. Vinay Prasad Prasad posted in March that his predecessor was "one of the most dangerous, pro-pharma regulators of the 21st century" www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-cri...

Um no? Trump’s DOJ is NOT defending medication abortion. They’re arguing the same thing SCOTUS previously ruled on standing (not the right plaintiffs) bc they think this lawsuit will fail and look like a big loss. They have easier paths — refile, enforce Comstock, or take internal HHS action.

as clear-cut a case of suppression of political speech as we’ve ever seen

HAPPY MAY DAY ABORTION IS A WORKERS’ RIGHTS ISSUE

This “study” on medication abortion from a right-wing “think” tank is horseshit. The fabulous @gynandtonic.bsky.social extensively explains why ⬇️

The Prairie Abortion Fund is looking for businesses or orgs (thinking coffee shops, community centers, etc) in ND or western MN that could function as a pickup site for their free emergency contraception, pregnancy tests, & abortion info. Please share! docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/...

“100 men vs. a critical thought” has sent me into orbit

I’m writing a piece for @prismreports.org about this admin’s closure of the HHS Long Covid office. I’d love to talk to ppl with LC in the US about your current access to care and treatment. DM me if you can respond to questions via email (response needed by Saturday 4/26 in the AM).

This is who you’re asking to write and defend a dissertation proposal in order to advance into candidacy

There's some basic vocab I need these people to learn.

Friendly reminder: — Personal devices only — Don’t leak from work, on a work device, or from work Wi-Fi — Use Signal and Signal’s camera — The reporter should recreate any image you leak before displaying it to the public www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/how-...

rt if you're a mean-girl communist hellraiser

We told y’all to stop buying his stupid ass hillbilly fan fic!!!!

Most people criminalized for their pregnancy outcomes were reported by a care professional (45%), but... ⚠️ Providers aren't required to report suspected self-managed abortion, AND ⚠️ In most cases, to do so is a direct violation of HIPAA ifwhenhow.org/resources/se...

A little tax season reminder of how anti-abortion lobbyists have spent decades strategically weaving "fetal personhood" provisions and abortion disinformation into unrelated policies to make it nearly impossible to unravel through litigation.

Several abortion funds across the country have now faced harassment and loss of funding for speaking in support of a #FreePalestine. A future with #ReproductiveJustice requires global solidarity with all people suffering from violent state oppression of bodily autonomy: fundabortionnotwar.org

Did you know you can be denied abortion care based on BMI? It’s an unfortunate reality, and it doesn’t have to be this way. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/03/25/r...